[disneyfreak59]

Originally Posted by Big Disney Fan

In 2003, my sister worked at WDW via the College Program. She worked in the food department of the Studios (namely, the Ranch Market near two of her favorite rides there, Tower of Terror and Rock 'n' Roller Coaster (she LOVES Aerosmith)). It was here that she met her new husband, who worked at the Magic Kingdom at the ice cream parlor at the end of Main Street.

Anyway, my sister created a website about her experience there: http://www.geocities.com/phatbottmdgirl/.

As part of her site, she has created a list of truths of what to REALLY expect from the CP, warning that it's not all it's cracked up to be:

1. You are there to work, not anything else
2. Guarantee that you will work on all holidays
3. There will be many days where you will be asked to work 11 hours or more
4. While it is up to the manager as to whether they will give you food that will get thrown out anyway, don't anticipate that they will allow it. Speaking from personal experience, more often than not, they would rather see you throw away somewhere between 20 and 150 turkey legs than see you and your fellow Cast Members have one.
5. If you call in sick the day after a free PI night, they look up if you went there the night before.
6. In addition, if you call in sick and go to a park, they can tell that too.
7. You will be guaranteed to have most of the closing shifts; CP doesn't just stand for College Program, it also stands for Closing Person or Company Peon
8. You will often be asked to work 6-day weeks. Your one day off may be the day you have to spend in class, if you take one
9. You will often be given the worst, dirtiest jobs
10. At the Presentation, they tell you about all the malls and other attractions in the area. If you are automotively challenged, don't count on seeing any of these things. In addition, unless you are motivated enough, don't count on finding time to go on one of your potentially two days off.
11. If you work at Magic Kingdom, start praying! If you are working on Main Street, forget it! Prayers won't help you now. Count on, not only staying till the park closes at 1 am for almost-daily after hours parties during holiday and summer seasons, but also for the 40-60 minutes in which Main Street stays open with the rest of the park, and add an hour for closing after that!
12. Unless you have class, you are game to work; you may even be scheduled to work on your class day
13. There is a weekly list of people who they can call on their days off to come in to work if they need it. Hope you don't get on this list during Thanksgiving/New Year's week and end up having to work 7 days in a row.
14. You will meet the dumbest people in your life here; people who will ask questions so innane, you'll wonder if they are for real.
15. You will be forced to wear a uniform so ugly, so fruity, and so horribly conceived you wouldn't even want to wear them trick-or-treating, let alone to your job on a daily basis.

Now, how 'bout some of your opinions, eh?

how about, welcome to the real world? In my opinion many people who dont work at disney meet weird, ignorant people, work long days, work thanksgiving week and black friday, any holiday week, go to school full time, maybe even have 2 jobs. No matter who you work for, you'll experience some of that grunt work too. If she really finds it being that miserable, then maybe she shouldn't be working there. anyways, please stop discouraging people with such negative comments about the program.

anyways, congrats to ChanChilla for being accepted!